There was a time – more a decade of despair than an annus horribilis – when such hegemony seemed threatened.
[The] only alternative to a decade of despair, of Tory Westminster cuts, is to have the financial independence for the parliament to generate more revenue, more wealth for Scotland and give us a better future".
The best-performing asset class will experience one decade of bull market, followed by a decade of disappointment, and, finally, a decade of despair.
"Our motto says to deliver mail in rain, sleet, and snow, but it doesn't say anything about dodging bullets," Chicago's postmaster, Rufus Porter, explained.What set the wrecking-ball swinging after decades of apathy and despair?
In this sleepy town of 250, for example, people have lived on the edge of despair for decades, dreaming of a way to make their corn worth more than $2 a bushel.
Since its crumbling walled city and fortress were named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984, Cartagena de Indias has made a remarkable recovery from dark decades of decay, violence and despair that engulfed the whole of Colombia.
The newspaper claimed that "Ireland has, quite simply, never seen a band like Fight Like Apes", reasoning that this was due to them "acting as a palette-cleansing antidote to the dour "woolly jumper brigade" that dragged Irish music into the depths of despair not a decade ago".
Over my nine decades of life, I've known despair but never hopelessness.
